Welcome
6 The Nonprofit Ethicist
What to do with “dirty” money, and why a
bad deed usually doesn’t go unpunished.
by Woods Bowman
9 Powerful Nonprofit Leadership:
The D Factor
Should your context drive your leadership
style? NPQ’s editors think so.
by the editors
12 Boards and Leadership Hires:
How to Get It Right
The hiring of a new executive director is
one of the most important jobs of a board,
but many make missteps that are hard to
reverse.
by Deborah Linnell
19 Gap or Pap: Generational
Differences at Work
Is there is a real difference between what
generations want and expect from a
workplace?
by Jennifer J. Deal

24 The Bright Future of
Community Building
Traditional approaches toward community
building may do more to push people away
than engage them.
by Bill Traynor
30 A Leader’s Guide to
Executive Coaching
When is it time to call a coach, and what
should you expect a coach to do?
by David Coleman
38 The Nonprofit ED’s First 100 Days
What should a new executive do—
and not do—in the first 100 days?
by Oliver Tessier and Ruth McCambridge
S p e c i a l S u p p l eme n t
45 The Evolution of Nonprofit
Management Programs
Here’s the inside scoop from those who
teach on what’s changing in nonprofit
management education.
by Judith Millesen
52 NPQ Nonprofit Management
Education Directory 2008
The Nonprofit Quarterly in collaboration
with Seton Hall University lists nonprofit
management education programs.

 D e p a r tme n t s
P h i l a n t h r o p y
60 Just Another Emperor?
The Myths and Realities of
Philanthrocapitalism
It’s hot, but is there anything new in
the new philanthropy?
by Michael Edwards
Huma n R e s o u r c e s
74 Volunteer Management: Once More
with Meaning
Volunteer management is typically all
upside-down trying to fit volunteers to the
organization rather than the organization
to the volunteers.
by Jennifer Woodill
O p i n i o n
79 A Conversation with California
Congressman Xavier Becerra
Daring to go where others fear to tread, a
California congressman asks tough questions
about whether nonprofits provide
what taxpayers expect to get for their
money.
by Rick Cohen

83 ARNOVA Abstracts
A selection of the most recent abstracts
from the Association for Research on
Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary
Action.

84 The Take-Away
A summary of the articles in this issue.
86 Classifieds

Satire
88 Eliminating Random Acts of
Kindness by 2010
The National Bureau of Evaluation comes
of age courtesy of brave advocates bucking
the trend of fluff evaluations.
by Phil Anthrop

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